Over a thousand pages long, and written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. It was illustrated with many monochrome and colour plates. ' A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. The paper has the distinctive look that you can only get from the real thing. Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and blusteringly self-confident, Household Management highlights the concerns of the ever-expanding Victorian middle-class at a key moment in its history. Browse for more great vintage and upcycle finds here on Bixley or at Bixley on Etsy. The pair features illustrations of main entrees, both meat & fish. The one cookery title that no South African home can do without.
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